Sunday, September 26, 2010

Evidence is the latest project by Angela Strassheim, "a group of photographs taken at homes where familial homicides have occurred. Long after the struggles have ended in these spaces, despite the cleaning, repainting and subsequent re-habitation of these homes, the “Blue Star” solution activates the physical memory of blood through its contact with the remaining DNA proteins on the walls."

Of all the theories we grew up with concerning the photographic sign, the referent, or the trace recorded by the photographic image, it is hard to find a more elegantly dreadful example of what a camera can capture and preserve from the past.